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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1362, 10 December 1872, Page 1

Shipping. TiTESSRS M'MECKAN, BLACKWOOD IVI AND CO.'S steamers will be despatched, weather permitting, from Greymouth on or about the following dateß :— For Melbourne Direct — CLAUD HAMILTON, Clark, commander, on or about 13th December. ALHAMBRA, Pearce, commander, on or about 20th instant. For Nelaon, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff Harbor, and Melbourne— RANGITOTO, Mackie, commander, on or about 18th instant. * Unless passengers book at the office of the Agents one hour prior to the departure of the tender Dispatch, they will require to pay their own fare over the bar. - Owing to the inconvenience arising from so many visitors to the ocean-going steamers, no one will henceforth be allowed on board, without an order from tho Agents. For freight or passage, apply to D. GIRD WOOD and CO., Agents. .Mawhera Quay. N.B.— Passengers booked through to Sydney and Adelaide. HONOLULU, SAN FRANCISCO, AND OVERLAND TO ENGLAND. The California, New Zealand and Australia • Mail Steamship Line. Vjnder Contract with the New Zealand Government for a Four-Weekly Mail Service. rpHE Magnificent and Powerful Steamship D A C 0 T A H , 2146 tons register, T. Ingersoll, Esquire, Commander, Will be despatched from Auckland Orf THQRSDAY, 26th DECEMBER. Greymouth. Saloo gXon.' Steerage. To San Francisco £46 0 £43 0 £23 0 „ New York 73 0 70 0 35 10 „ Liverpool 85 10 82 10 40 0 Passengers have the option of either proceeding direct on their journey, or spending two months in crossing the Continent of America. Express trains, with palace sleeping coaches attached, leave San Francisco daily, and run through to New York in six lays and 20 hours. For particulars, apply at once to NANCARROW, HENDERSON & CO. Agents, Greymouth. . ... — Tl JTESSRS M'MECKAN, BLACKWOOD jyjL & COS LIAE OF STEAMERS. SPECIAL HOLIDAY EXCURSION TRIPS To all New Zealand Ports at which the steamers call. RETURN TICKETS AT SINGLE FARE, Available for the months of December, Vt- 1872, and January, 1873. Return Tickets will likewise be pranted to Melbourne by the abovenamed lino of steamers at reduced fares, viz., Cabin £17 0 Steerage 8 10 Available for return during all February, 1873. Apply to D, GIRDWOOD& CO., Agents. STEAM-TUG DISPATCH, . T\HE Grey River Steam Tug Company's JL powerful Double-Engine Steamer DISPATCH, Is prepared to Tow Vessels in and out of •she river as per agreement, to be arranged on application to i «■. W. MOSS, Manager, j Tainui street. _ _ ; i Public Companies riIHE SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND X MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW. ZEALAND. Caiital j £500,000, in 25,000 shares, of £20 each, with unlimited liability of shareholders. Directors : . Chairman — Albert Beetham, Esq.] Hon Henry Chamberlain. M.L.A. . Wm. Crush Daldy, Esq., J.P. Stannns Jones, Esq. William Earl, Ban. William Morrin, Esq. Solicitors— Messrs Hesketh and Richmond. Bankers — Union Bank of Australia. General Manager— A. Boardman. Head Office— 29, Queen street, Auckland. This Company has been established as a purely New Zealand institution, with all its funds retained and invested in the colony. It has a very large and influential body of shareholdersdistnbuted throughout the entire colony, who are themselves insurers to a very considerable amount, and consequently can influence a large business, thus adding to the security of the insured and the stability of the Company, the chief features of which are a liberal management, prompt payments, rates moderate, and personal responsibility of a large body of shareholders. Fire and Marine Insurance is now carried on throughout the colony. Marine business will also be Commenced in Australia and ' Great Britain as soon as arrangements can be made. NANCARROW, HENDERSON & CO., Agents. Greymonth, October 18, 1872. /^» W . M o S S SHIPPING & COMMISSION AGENI fc&toi street, opposite Kennedy Bros.